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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the familiar hallmark of Baedeker guides?
2. Boorstin opens Chapter 3 - Section VI talking about the changes in our understanding of time and what?
3. How much were tickets on Thomas Cook's first train tour?
4. When did the development of hotels with leisure complexes become a popular development in the United States?
5. Boorstin states, in Chapter 3 - Section I, that in today's travel there is very little what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Boorstin describe the power of celebrity to obscure and destroy the heroic?
2. What does Boorstin write of the impact of the Graphic Revolution, in Chapter 1 - Section II?
3. How did Conrad Hilton establish his hotel empire? Where was his first hotel built?
4. How did the "Crime of the Century" affect Lindbergh's celebrity?
5. What does Boorstin write of the changing nature of travel in Chapter 3?
6. What does Boorstin write all tourist attractions share, in Chapter 3 - Section IV? What effect does this have on travelers?
7. What does Boorstin write of "local atmosphere" in tourist destinations?
8. How did Baedeker expand his publications? What was the "star system"?
9. What does Boorstin assert of travelers' dissociation since the advent of tourism?
10. What has eroded the old heroic form, according to Boorstin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contract the definitions of Boorstin for "hero" and "celebrity." How do heroes and celebrities differ in their creation and their demise?
Essay Topic 2
Describe Charles Lindbergh as depicted in the text. How did Lindbergh's fame evolve from heroism to celebrity?
Essay Topic 3
How does Boorstin define the term "celebrity"? What impact did this definition have on scholars and the American public? How and to whom does this definition apply today?
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